from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words

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It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them, shoved a news release down their throats and waited to give them the go-ahead to regurgitate it on their blogs, using the same screenshots, same content, and differing only in the pithiness of their post titles.

February 17th, 2010 at 10: 30 pm matt, short enough to fit in a tweet: that packer thinks twitter is unhelpful does not mean he is a luddite. just that he is neither so sure of his pithiness nor so self-indulgent enough to think a half thought worth posting. luckily, i am not so self-constrained. joejoejoe says:

Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness.